Sentences with phrase «done at the elementary school»

I know they did this at an elementary school, but why not at West Adams?

I asked Jaya about this, commenting that I usually don't see as many parents at middle schools as I do at elementary schools.

Ranale, a sixth grader who lives near the school, likes Crossroads because he works harder here and doesn't get into trouble the way he did at the elementary school located on the lower floor of the same building.

The requirement that half of all reading done at elementary school be non-fiction is particularly devastating in the lower grades, and for teachers who believe that children should choose what they read and read what interests them most.

Not exact matches

With two kids who were in elementary school at the time, Curran asked administrators what their emergency plans were, which he didn't find sufficient.

WASHINGTON — Standing before vast crowds from Washington to Los Angeles to Parkland, Fla., the speakers — nearly all of them students, some still in elementary school — delivered an anguished and defiant message: They are «done hiding» from gun violence, and will «stop at nothing» to get politicians to finally prevent it.

(CNN)-- As he waited with parents who feared that their kids were among the 20 children killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, Rabbi Shaul Praver said the main thing he could do for parents was to merely be present.

I don't keep up with the studies that indicate that some people are born gay... or at least born with the propensity to become gay, but I don't know how else to explain why some adult males will say that they knew they were attracted to the same sex when they were in elementary school.

but if enough real food advocates step up and say «does it really make sense to serve candy and soda at an elementary school function» or «can we encourage parents to send non-food treats for bday celebrations» or better yet, «can you do what you do best and help my child learn to like fresh produce just like you taught him to read?»

Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston's Recipe for Success program.

This week, I did lunch duty at my DD's elementary school and it was raining, again.

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

But wait just a minute: The researchers didn't have data on milk waste from the previous year at the 11 Oregon schools, so they used results from five New York City elementary schools (where chocolate milk was still available) as a comparison.

For us, that extra 6 cents really added up quickly — our particiation at high school did drop about 5 % with the new HHFKA, but our elementary went up from 78 % to 82 %.

How vicious do you have to taunt the parents of the first graders massacred at Sandy Hook elementary school?

«At the elementary school level we are doing some plate waste study to see what the children actually are eating, and in one school we are trying a nutrition program in grades K through 3 that uses colors to help children add nutritious foods of differrent food groups to their trays.»

As Janet Poppendieck noted in the Washington Post last week, many children who currently do not participate in the federal program get no lunch at all (4 percent of elementary students and 8 percent of high school students).

Paper resolution trees are a staple with elementary school teachers, but that doesn't mean that moms can't use this craft with their children at home.

His wife, Michelle, laughed this off: «Let's just say, it got done so we don't have to go down that road,» she told the crowd at a D.C. elementary school for the signing.

Although my experience with taking care of kids was mainly in chasing after toddlers at the park or nannying for elementary school - aged kids, when I thought about it, it just didn't make a whole lot of sense to me to use a binkie.

Once I did a [school foodservice] internship I realized this was something I'd like to be involved with; I applied for a job straight out of college and began managing at an elementary school.»

While my husband and I didn't grow up in the same state (I was in Arizona at the time), there's no reason to think that my elementary school menu was much different.

Most elementary schools (at least 20 + years ago) did not have cafeterias at all, everyone brought lunch from home.

Thinking back to my elementary school days (where at least students had the option of buying school lunch or brown - bagging it), most of the cafeteria food did not require the use of forks OR knives!

One of our big things last year was the Pedometer Challenge, with a goal of 10,000 steps a day, and it started with employees but made it to the student level — at the elementary level it prompted some schools to form walking clubs, where students were able to do a lap around the park and walk back to school.

Even though the elementary school is doing well academically, low test scores by students at the upper school have hurt the school's grade, Mulgrew noted.

Last year, the program was instituted in middle schools, where all students are now provided lunch at no charge, but the mayor said that the results of the program were underwhelming and that instead of expanding it to elementary and / or high schools, the city would first look to do more outreach around the middle school offering and see if there is a noted improvement in year two.

Today at an Upper West Side elementary school down the street from where three people were recently killed by cars, Mayor Bill de Blasio said reducing traffic fatalities was «definitional to the work we do.»

That's exactly what Siena has done for the past six years at P.S. 150, one of the smallest elementary schools in the city, which has just one class per grade and has no cafeteria, gym or auditorium.

Former Bronx City Councilwoman Maria Baez challenging administrators at her grandson's elementary school in New Rochelle, saying the school did little to stop violent bullying against the 4th - grader.

BRONX — Controversial new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black didn't waste any time after getting the green light from the state Monday, turning up at a Bronx elementary school just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday to read to students.

«But basically what they did is they changed the starting and ending time at two elementary schools from being early schools, that start at 8» o'clock to schools that starts at 9» o'clock — the kids then would get out an hour later — they did so without the knowledge of the parents, the consent of the teachers or anybody,» Rumore remarked in a WBFO interview.

«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medischool - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of MediSchool of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair of the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of MediSchool of Medicine..

But, at least in the elementary - school presentations he's done, the toys are useful for making science both accessible and fun.

Babies who attend large - group child - care centers before they are 2 1/2 years of age do get more respiratory and ear infections than those cared for at home, but they are less likely to come down with these ailments once they start elementary school, according to the study.

Those who attended large day - care centers after age 2 1/2 did not receive the same protection against illness during their elementary school years as their counterparts who started group day care at younger ages, the new study showed.

As the salad bars were implemented at the elementary schools, staff quickly realized their work load did not increase.

i love kids but do nt have any, i work full time as a custdian at an elementary school!

And a profanity - laden talent show act he does with his daughter at an elementary school was painful to watch.

In fact, paying elementary age children to read books did as much to boost their ability as more popular approaches such as smaller class size, Head Start, and bonuses to teachers for working in at - risk schools, the study determined — and was much cheaper, too.

«Five people in my family didn't even finish elementary school because it was just so hard, it was just so difficult to have that kind of access to school,» he says, as he glances up at the building, where his youngest sister, Minnie Wilson Early, currently teaches.

But after this week's experience, I've been doing a great deal of thinking about how teaching — especially at the elementary school level — is really designed for a particular type of personality.

In conducting the study at an elementary school in Avon, Ohio, researchers found that 16 percent of students who had used hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes on their desks stayed home with a GI illness during the study, while 24 percent of students who did not use disinfectants were out sick.

William Sanders, formerly of the University of Tennessee and now at the SAS Institute, has done pioneering work to develop a system of value - added assessment, using the results of annual tests administered to all elementary and middle - school students in Tennessee.

Of course, that doesn't mean that every elementary school will shrink by that amount (though that is exactly what's happening at my kids» school in Montgomery County, Maryland).

Perhaps, instead of looking forward to high school, it is time for middle school educators to look back at what elementary school is doing.

A mathematician I know who teaches at a small college told me that a graduate of his education school caused much embarrassment when, during the interview for a job in an elementary school, the job seeker was unable to add two fractions when asked to do so.

Washington — With their dead bees, green plants, and electrical gear in hand, elementary - school pupils joined scientists at the National Academy of Sciences here last week to help introduce a new science curriculum designed to help them «learn science by doing science.»

One of the highlights was ceramics, something he did at Virrick from elementary to high school with a park leader named Gina Knowles.

(One assignment given my youngest daughter in her elementary school days was to write, «I'm terrific,» 20 times on a 3 × 5 card — which she dutifully did, all the while wondering aloud what in fact she was terrific at.)